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Posted in Career Repositioning, career growth on Aug 8th, 2009
How to Make Points and Influence People
In your work life it is not uncommon to encounter colleagues, associates, and those around you who are unpleasant, even obnoxious, to deal with. Some display this trait overtly and others in more “subtle” ways. Such people have a tendency to bring out the worst in you and to [...]
Posted in Career Repositioning on Jul 13th, 2009
Much is written about reinvention and reinventing yourself to re-invigorate or even reignite your career. Well, the advice is often simple but implementing it is not always easy! In many cases a complete reinvention takes three years to develop full traction in the new career. In my own case I have completely changed five careers [...]
Posted in Career Mentor, Career Repositioning on Jul 11th, 2009
“You don’t know how far you can you until you go too far”-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most professionals believe that their manager has the responsibility for advancing their career! In fact some are under the illusion that their managers often lie awake at night wondering about how to promote their employees’ careers and how to make worth [...]
Posted in Career Repositioning on Jul 8th, 2009
Everyone must be prepared for a layoff at any time. Going into fear because of what might happen puts you at a disadvantage and, inevitably, because of that fear, you’ll be laid off. It is often said that you become what you fear. So, if go around your place of work wearing that fear others [...]
Posted in Career Repositioning on Jul 6th, 2009
The only real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust, novelist (1871–1922)
As the job losses mount and as the economy gets tougher, those left with having to do multiple jobs because of the cutbacks often have to face both, the survivors’ guilt and having to do [...]
Posted in Career Repositioning, Career Tips on Jun 29th, 2009
It is hard to accept failure, but it worse never to have tried to succeed–Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), U. S. President, Nobel Peace Prize winner.
We often wonder about those who have made it big in their profession. Their very names epitomize excellence and they are regarded with envy by others and are seen as the standard [...]
Posted in Career Repositioning, Job Search on May 29th, 2009
March is Women’s Month. We celebrate women by inviting them in the business world and by helping them make it easy to re-enter the workforce. Re-entering the workforce presents its unique challenges, especially after a long hiatus. Because in a typical family a woman’s place continues to play a nurturing role, their challenges are different [...]
Posted in Career Repositioning, Career Tips on May 16th, 2009
“What lies before and ahead of us are tiny compared to what lies within us.”–Ralph Waldo Emerson
In our life’s journey, we constantly pursue goals and seek to achieve for ourselves what we want. Often, this pursuit is intrinsic, wherein we follow a path or a calling to satisfy our own inner quest, while at other [...]
Posted in Career Repositioning on Apr 30th, 2009
Introduction
Dictionary defines etiquette as conduct or procedure required by good breeding or prescribed by authority in social or official life. With this definition as a guiding principle, etiquette is even more important in a networking situation than in others because most who are in the “taking” end do not even realize that their behaviors–and even [...]
Posted in Career Repositioning on Apr 22nd, 2009
Now that the economy is on the rebound employees are on the move once again! People are changing jobs to get themselves on a better career trajectory, a more aligned job, a more compatible company culture and even a better salary. Although those looking for a change do not initiate it with the primary objective [...]
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